"It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes."
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"Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people."
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"All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels."
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"People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive."
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"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
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"For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all."
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"She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw."
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"Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right."
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"No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all."
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"I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine."
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"I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?"
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"Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory."
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"Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you."
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"It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life."
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"Learning another language is like becoming another person."
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself."
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"You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you."
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"Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you."
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"She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery."
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"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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